Magpie's Stash

Second verse, same as the first. Difference here is that I borrowed heavily from other creator's textures to make these, and there are no mesh edits; all textures work with the waist ridges, which provides an extra and rather nice 3D effect.

Thanks to Pooklet, CuriousB, and Aelia for color actions.

AS WITH ALL DEFAULTS, THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE (per item).

( +5 defaults )

This is an ENORMOUS project that started as noodling around to see if I could salvage a few Maxis meshes and grew into an absolute monster. These replacements cover 56 non-hat Basegame hairstyles; the additional 6 hiders hide the styles I loathe too much to touch. Some styles are completely retextured, others only softened a bit and recolored.

Allow me to crow: some of these styles were absolute bitches. Maxis failmapping was in full force in the basegame, with continuous parts of meshes often mapped in completely different places, making it difficult to avoid big, ugly seams with retextures (and in the case of the Short style, even Maxis couldn't avoid such).

Through careful blending, lots of cursing, and the blessing that is previewing via Milkshape, I managed to retexture these styles in a way that minimizes the weird mapping. They aren't perfect; I had to do some blending magic with the Maxis textures to get this to work, and as a result the textures a little funky along those seams. They're good enough for my game; you'll have to choose whether or not they're good enough for yours.

I also made the mullet style workable through a mesh edit as well as a retexture. The mesh is a part of the package, as the texture really doesn't work with the original mesh.

All files have been compressorized.

Preview 1 | Preview 2 | Preview 3 | Preview 4 | Preview 5 | Preview 6 | Preview 7


TEXTURE DEFAULTS

All custom 'mirror' colors have been replaced as well as the binned styles.

I've edited some styles to texture reference the opposite gender's textures, where the styles used the same mapping. This saves considerably on file size, but PLEASE BE AWARE: this means certain age conversions (AM mohawk and AM Longdreads) will end up using Maxis textures unless you fix them.

Some files may look particularly large; this is because they had many custom colors, required large texture sizes for quality, or both.

Remember, these are DEFAULT REPLACEMENTS: You can have only one of any given replacement.

DOWNLOAD Default Texture Replacements (Acorntuck through Meg)
DOWNLOAD Default Texture Replacements (Messy through Will)



BONUS! Conversions, mesh edits, addons, and texture resources


( GENDER AND AGE CONVERSIONS )


( MAXIS MESH EDITS ONLY )


( HIDERS )


( TEXTURE RESOURCES )


Credits:
Pooklet's colors (Dynamite, Depth Charge, Volatile, Pyrotechnic, and TimeBomb)
Pooklet's v.2 and v.3 textures
Nouk's Waves, Afro, and Dreads textures
Nymphy's curls edit of Nouk's Waves
AlfredAskew for the Shortsimple retexture I tweaked, softened, and blended with the Maxis texture
Almighty Hat for the braidsup, halo, lowbun, meg, poofs, rocker, and sixty textures
Alkaloid via Almight Hat for the shortmop textures
Monoblue for the PG Skater alpha
Ja, Almighty Hat, Nymphy, and Lunar Eclipse for pilfered alphas
Biobong on MTS for the Punkflip edit idea
Melodie9's many, many age conversions
Layana's texture referencing, Maxis-blending files for the conversions

I apologize for any missing credits in the text files included with the archive.

Please feel free to use my packages to build your own replacements.

*falls over*

Policy.

A look through the base game clothes gave me the impression that Maxis really didn't like men -- especially not fat men. Despite the athletic shape to the male sim body, there is only a small handful outfits (aside from the briefs) that don't look poorly tailored and a few sizes too big, and one of those outfits is the male maid outfit. The fat men get it even worse; they look like a sack of potatoes with sticks stuck in no matter what they are, or are not, wearing.

I've decided to fix that, starting by reshaping the TM & AM fat morphs based on the same idea that governs the female fat morph: the fit morph plus padding over top. I'm also reshaping the fit morphs so that the clothes look properly tailored and adding preg morphs to appropriate outfits. The beauty of the reshaping of the fat morph is that the new top will still fit any bottoms you have that are fat morphed (when I get to the tops, that is :D).

These are MESH replacements: you will have to take out any other mesh replacements you might have for the same outfits. However, they get along just fine with TEXTURE ONLY replacements!

CAVEAT: I'm not reshaping all base game outfits, only ones I feel are worth salvaging.

Pt 1. Set includes AM&TM nude, briefs, tank+boxers, boxers, pajama pants, and TM swim trunks. All AM meshes have preg morphs. Also included are TM conversions of the AM briefs and pajama pants. These are properly proportioned for the teen body, and draw their textures from the game files and will pick up any default replacement textures you are using.

( Lots of pictures, extra notes, and download )

Stay turned for Pt. 2: Suits!

An alien skintone inspired by one of my favourite weird fruits. This one took a while due to noticing yet another glaring flaw every time I thought I was done. :D

Not content to have aliens that were sims with green bodypaint on, I set out on a quest to make a blend that was more truly alien--dragonish with bony and weird parts and unusually coloured.

Both genders Teen through Elder use the same face. TF-AF share the same textures, as do TM-EM. Default Replacement zip includes two handy additional files: Argon's Fit Fixes, so that aliens will change fitness states, and BastDawn's TF alien eye fix. Alien eyes not included.

Policy.

Credits.
Base: My Delicious Nectarine skin
Alienish details: Astiee's Martini Olive skin
Extra bony details: Jason Ulloa's otherwise frightening Gisele skin and a bit of an older Navetsea F-In skin
Extra face details: Lunar Eclipse

Skin and Face details
Download Default Replacement | Download Custom


I may make some oddly-coloured-human alien skins later. I kinda want a pale strawberry candy coloured one...

In which I unload upon this journal everything useful I've accumulated but not really warranting a thread or post of its own.

Policy.

( Maxis match eyebrows - default and custom. )

( Default Replacement Eyeshadows. )

( Sentate tops for teens. )

And finally two things I couldn't be bothered to make previews for--

( Club Crimsyn costume makeup made into default replacement costume makeup )

( Delicious Skintone match Louis Elf Ears )

Now to dig through the stuff packs I arrrquired for meshes to chop to bits.